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Hidden Options

There are a number of hidden options that cannot be set by the Xfce Settings Manager. These require use of a text editor.

List of icon view appearance settings

The colors of the icon text and the icon text background, as well as the opacity of the icon text background and icon layout can be customized by putting directives similar to the following in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

Icon view text appearance

The first four entries set the opacity of the rounded text background
(allowed values are from 0 (totally transparent) to 255 (totally opaque),
and whether or not unselected icons get their labels ellipsized
(truncated) to fit on one line. (The 'selected-' version controls the
opacity of icons that have been selected with the mouse.) The tooltip-size
determines how large the image preview will be when the mouse is hovered
over an icon (allowed values are from 0 (not shown) to 512, values larger
than 256 may cause poor image quality however.)

Shadow appearance

The second six entries can be used to enable a text shadow to be painted
with the icon labels. The offsets are in pixels. Setting them to 0 (the
defaults) will disable the shadows entirely. Again, the 'selected-'
versions apply to icons that have been selected with the mouse.

Icon grid

The third four entries set spacing and sizing for individual icons on
the grid. The 'cell-spacing' property specifies the spacing between each
'cell' in the grid of icons. The 'cell-padding' property sets extra
padding placed around each icon+text. The units for these two are in
pixels. The 'cell-text-width-proportion' property specifies the maximum
width of the text label underneat the icon, as a multiplier of the icon
width (so for 30px icons, '2.5' would leave a 75px wide area underneath
for the text).

Text and text background colors

The fourth three entries set the color of the rounded text background.

NORMAL sets the color for the regular, unselected state.

SELECTED sets the color for when the icon is selected, and the desktop has keyboard/mouse focus.

ACTIVE sets the color for when the icon is selected, but the desktop does not have keyboard/mouse focus.

The final three entries set the color of the label text. See above for the
differences between NORMAL, SELECTED, and ACTIVE.

Command line

You can open the menu or window list from the commandline as well. This can be useful for keyboard shortcuts. To open the menu run the command xfdesktop –menu, and for the windowlist use xfdesktop –windowlist. To cause the current running instance to quit, run xfdesktop –quit.